M0008906: Operation with ether as an anaesthetic agent

Date:: 24 July 1943

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/78/10

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008898-M0008998WT/D/1/20/1/78
        M0008906: Operation with ether as an anaesthetic agentWT/D/1/20/1/78/10

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M0008906: Operation with ether as an anaesthetic agent. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Operations with ether as an anaesthetic agent

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of one of the first operations with the use of ether as an anaesthetic agent performed at the Massachussetts General Hospital. Reproduced in the Transactions of the American Surgical Association

Publication/Creation

24 July 1943

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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